#7422 closed feature request (fixed)
GUI: Mute option
| Reported by: | SF/a60wattfish | Owned by: | sev- |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | GUI |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
Would it be possible to add some sort of mute option (and maybe a keyboard shortcut) to mute all the sound in ScummVM? I know I can just go in and fiddle with all the volume settings, but having to do this every time I decide I want to mute/unmute the volume will probably get somewhat annoying.
Rather than having to go in and change a load of code to make it check whether the volume is muted, you could make it so that when the mute option is selected all the current volume levels are put in temporary variables and then set all the volumes to zero.
Ticket imported from: #1180217. Ticket imported from: feature-requests/238.
Change History (15)
comment:1 by , 19 years ago
comment:2 by , 19 years ago
I hadn't realised that there were volumn hotkeys. However this is still changing your volumn settings, and if you have adjusted all the volumns to specific levels, for your own requirements you will still have to fiddle with the volumn controls.
comment:3 by , 18 years ago
So there are two requests: 1) Add a GUI option to mute sound/music/sfx. 2) Add a hotkey (or possible multiple) for this.
Techincal side note: We have speech_mute, music_mute, sfx_mute config/command line options, but those are only used by some of the engines. We might want to make sure those work in all engines consistently (and add GUI access to them). I just added a note to the TODO list about this.
comment:4 by , 18 years ago
| Summary: | Mute option → GUI: Mute option |
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comment:5 by , 17 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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comment:6 by , 17 years ago
I think there's enough room for such buttons to the right of each slider.
Fingolfin, adding GUI's for muting inside the engines would usually cause inconsistencies with the original menus. BASS, for example, has a music_mute only for the floppy version. In the CD version that space is used for the text and speech button. Adding another button would require a modification of the control panel image. (or a replacement that could be stored in the sky.cpt file)
comment:7 by , 17 years ago
So, is there should be one for all button, or 3? And what keyboard shortcut is most suitable? Ctrl+S?
comment:8 by , 17 years ago
About this request.
Ctrl+U seems to be a suitable shortcut, i.e. 'mUte' and it is free now.
How should it be handled? Per engine? Or by adding some hook to backend? It is not yet clear to me. Max?
comment:9 by , 17 years ago
Various engines already offer "mute" options. These engines maybe could be extended by a mute hotkey. But I don't think that it's a good idea to add such a shortcut on the backend level. It will just quickly get into conflict with the engines, and cause odd bugs.
Furthermore, implementing muting is not that trivial. For sampled data, one could add code to the mixer which allows to mute a certain type of audio data (music, speech, FX), which would at least avoid the conflicts that would be caused by meddling with the volume levels.
But what about MIDI output? It's not clear to me how to mute that in an engine independant fashion.
Maybe we should just tell our users to go and buy speakers with a mute button? :)
comment:10 by , 17 years ago
| Owner: | removed |
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comment:11 by , 17 years ago
Yeah, pretty everything now has a mute button. I.e. even in-system mixer can do. Just where I could see a hypotetical application for this FR is when someone will want to hear other sounds uttered by his system which could be overpowered by ScummVM score.
Now I see that implementing this feature is quite problematic, and it is an ever-demanding feature, i.e. each new engine should think about it. Perhaps reject it then? At least I'm unassigning it from myself.
comment:12 by , 17 years ago
Perhaps an easier solution would be the following: when the user presses the mute shortcut (e.g. Control-U) the current volume values could be stored in some sort of variable, and then set to 0. Then, when the user presses unmute, the volume levels could be restored again
comment:13 by , 15 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
comment:15 by , 6 years ago
| Component: | → GUI |
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Can't you use the new volume hotkeys to change the volume to 0, like with the original interpreters? It should only take a matter of seconds to lower the volume to null, and there's no fiddling around with the GUI / game volume settings required.